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  • Antoinette Burton book Biocultural Empire
    Antoinette Burton's new volume sheds light on the biocultural empire
    2025-03-09 - Historian Antoinette Burton recently published a thought-provoking new edited collection titled Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds, co-edited alongside Renisa Mawani and Samantha Frost. This groundbreaking volume challenges traditional histories of empire by questioning human supremacy and exploring the intricate connections between human and nonhuman worlds.  Burton...
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    UIUC Delegation Awarded Outstanding Delegation At Regional Model Arab League Competition 2025
    2025-02-22 - Model Arab League 2025 Success! We are thrilled to share that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign delegation had an outstanding performance at the Model Arab League 2025, proudly funded by CSAMES! Representing Oman, our dedicated students earned prestigious awards:Distinguished Delegation Award – Joint Defense Council  Mohammad Fakhreddine & Rachel Simpson...
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    Dr. Waïl S. Hassan elected as vice president of the Modern Language Association
    2025-01-14 - We are delighted to congratulate CSAMES affiliate and former CSAMES Director Waïl S. Hassan on his recent election as second vice president of the Modern...
  • Tea Plantation in Sri Lanka
    2024-25 Focus of ACES Global Academy is Sri Lanka
    2024-10-16 - The Global Academy, a unique international training program based in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) has kicked off its sixteenth year. With the goal of increasing the international impact of the participants’ professional work, the selected faculty and staff will spend the remainder of the academic year exploring the topic of sustainable development for...
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    CSAMES Welcomes First Faculty Director for South Asian Studies
    2024-09-25 - The Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies is excited to announce a new role within the center: the Faculty Director for South Asian Studies. Starting on August 16, 2024, the Center’s first Faculty Director for South Asian Studies will be Professor Rini Mehta (Comparative & World Literature and Religion). Professor Mehta has been a leader in South Asian Studies programming at...
  • Antoinette Burton
    Antoinette Burton's new book provides introduction to gender history
    2024-08-07 - Antoinette Burton, who is the director of the Humanities Research Institute at Illinois, wrote a new book, “Gender History: A Very Short Introduction,” which gives an overview of gender history as a category of historical...
  • Susan Koshy
    Susan Koshy Receives OVCRI Faculty Fellowship
    2024-08-01 - Congratulations to Susan Koshy for her recent receipt of a faculty fellowship with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation. From OVCRI: "Faculty Fellows inform OVCRI thinking and policy-making while simultaneously learning about campus-level research administration and research-related issues. It’s a strategic professional development opportunity to nurture new campus...
  • Mara Thacker
    South Asian Librarian Mara Thacker Awarded Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity Seed Grant
    2024-07-09 - Mara Thacker, South Asian Studies & Global Popular Culture Librarian, is part of a team that has been awarded a $15,000 seed grant from the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2) at Washington University in Saint Louis. The mission of CRE2 is to study how race and ethnicity are integral to the most complex and...
  • Eman Saadah
    Eman Saadah wins "SLCL Diversity & Engagement Award"
    2024-04-15 - This award recognizes alumni or members of the community at large who have made significant contributions (tangible and intangible) to the SLCL community; contributions which strengthen our public service mission, our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusivity, and our international connections. This year’s awardee is Eman Saadah. Eman is a professor in the...
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